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How our experienced academics develop as teachers

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The technologies seemed to actively shape practice, rather than being passive tools.

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Top ten tips for teaching online

Teaching Matters Academic Support

2019), we cite the musician Bjork, who said that “If electronic music has no soul, it is because nobody put it there.” Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: implications for academic staff development. However, it doesn’t have to be this way. In one of our papers (Fawns et al., and Loads, D.

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Spotlight on Alternative Assessment Methods: Remote exam marking – Holding on to the philosophy of paper

Teaching Matters Online Learning

If needed for accessibility, this process can work with printed and scanned pages too – although the full benefit comes if the final checking stage can be done electronically. He is now developing an entirely new approach to online laboratories to support a mixture of non-traditional online practical work activities across multiple campuses.

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Mini-series: Chalk, Talk and Tech: Blending technology and tradition

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. – Ross Galloway, Senior Teaching Development Officer, School of Physics and Astronomy Another challenge faced by the team was recording lectures that use more than one resource, for example, an electronic presentation as well as chalkboard content. The way we tackled this was by using automation.

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Mini-series: Don’t panic! Content and copyright for lecture recording

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Stephanie (Charlie) Farley Stephanie (Charlie) Farley (@SFarley_Charlie ) is rarely seen without an electronic device in her hand, and is passionate about the uses of technology to enhance open education, access, and information sharing. She is also a Trustee of Wikimedia UK, and the Association for Learning Technology.